TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE OF THE DON REGION

Written:Written on February 16, 1918Published:First published in 1942 in LeninMiscellany XXXIV.

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Governmental.Secret

Chairmanof the Regional M.R.C. of the Don RegionVoronezh

Havereceived your telegram of
31/1[1]concerning, the
capture of Shakhtnaya and Kamenolomni. I congratulate
the Soviet troops on their success. I particularly thank you
for the news of the dispatch of 60 waggons of coal through
Tsaritsyn and earnestly request you to inform us by
telegraph of the numbers of trains with coal and grain and the
precise days and hours of dispatch. It is extremely
important. Send more grain. The letter of Alexeyev’s spy has
not yet been received. Send it by hand through a very
reliable person, after taking a photograph of
it.[2]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]February13,1918, new style.—Ed.

[2]Thisrefers to General Alexeyev’s letter to the French Mission
in Kiev, which was intercepted in Novokhopersk. It was published
on February 19, 1918, inIzvestiaNo. 28. In the letter, General
Alexeyev asked the French Mission for assistance in the struggle
against the Soviet state, since his troops were sustaining heavy
defeats and were forced to withdraw from the Don territory. In
describing the situation in the Don and Kuban regions, Alexeyev
had to admit that he had been mistaken in counting on the
Cossacks. “The ideas of Bolshevism,” he wrote, “have found
supporters among the broad mass of Cossacks.”